Afonso Maassen van den Brink

Afonso Maassen van den Brink (11 October 1780-29 January 1814) was a colonel of the United Netherlands' army during the Napoleonic Wars. He led an army of Dutch troops to reinforce Gebhard von Blucher during the Defense of France campaign of 1814, but was killed in the Battle of Chalons-en-Champagne.

Biography
Afonso Maassen van den Brink was born in Utrecht in the United Provinces, and became a colonel of the Dutch Army during the Napoleonic Wars. He commanded a regiment of line infantry, and in 1814 he was given the task of leading a small Dutch army of 4,800 troops to reinforce General Gebhard von Blucher's Prussian army of 16,900 troops during the War of the Sixth Coalition. Van Den Brink arrived in time to join up with Blucher, but his army was crushed after the main Prussian force in the Battle of Chalons-en-Champagne and he was killed when French cavalry charged his unit.